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"The Clinton supporters who feel so burned by losing a tough-but-fair campaign that they can't concede defeat and try to blackmail the party are already gone. Attempts to woo them are as pointless as their idle threats."
The election was not "tough but fair". Axelrod played the race card to slander Clinton and her supporter's as racists, gaining sympathy votes from people who oppose racism and believed their spin and resentment from people who recognized that the spin was based on lies and distortions. Using this kind of tactics against a fellow Democrats was abhorrent - not "fair". I will recognize that Obama is a fair man, or at least a resonable man, when he acknowledges that Clinton got 50% of the vote and deserves a place on the ticket. When he takes active steps to show her respect, instead of simply reciting words that are as meaningless as the lies he spread about her to win the primary.
